Re: Lightning always finds a way... of least resistance.
Should've gone to earth somewhere till it had all gone away
Posts by Inventor of the Marmite Laser
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Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice
Friday 7th July 2023 09:11 GMT 
Donkeys years sinceupon, when 8 inch disks were still a thing, a work chum was despatched from our Luton office to take a raft of bits to a water treatment works in Diss, Norfolk, which had been on the fizzy end of a lightning strike.
I got involved when he rang in to say that he'd found the problem - an 8 inch floppy unit had been fried and he'd replaced it. Everything was then fine he said, until the second lightning strike fritzed the replacement.
Guess who got stuck with a panic run to Diss and back.
I think we did something about power arrangements but I've been asleep a few times since then and I'm buggered if I can remember what.
Sadly my old chum is no longer with us but I do remember him in the occasional lightning storms we get here.
Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view
Thursday 29th June 2023 22:09 GMT
If I was asked to accept - and pay for - the delivery of an un-franked letter which I knew simply contained marketing, I would unhesitatingly refuse it.
Similarly, were I contacted by my phone company and asked to accept a collect call that was some kind of marketing, I would refuse it. I might actually get somewhat forthright on the matter.
So why does Google and other online advert pushers, expect me to spaff my data allowance and/or paid-for data just for me to download marketing?
People (if web marketers qualify for that term) used to bleat that ad-blocking equated to theft. I suggest the opposite: web advertising is theft.
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Re: From the article
Had one a few years back and I can attest to the noise. It is, however a bit like a noisy a/c or traffic noise and your mind pretty quickly disregards it as baseline to be ignored. What I WASN'T warned about, however was the (almost) soothing baarrrp, baarrrp, baarrrp would suddenly change. There was I, just beginning to doze, in the audio cocoon of baarrrp, baarrrp, baarrrp when suddenly baarrrp, baarrrp, baarrrp became BARRR, BARR, BARRR and jerked me to full and sudden wakefulness.
Have you ever tried laying inside a twenty inch pipe and suddenly sitting upright? It doesn't work. I was moved to suggest the staff warned people about sudden changes in the noise.
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